Yuvraj Singh is a phenomenal talent

horace wrote:all i did was ask an innocent question - given the dire experience of SL in pakistan one would expect the SL govt and team management and members would wish to be assured of their safety...doremi is just another stoopid arrogant pig of a kid

So treat him like one ... things have to be explained to the doe-boy in words of one syllable else he tends to lose the plot (which is often enough). And stay away from any derogatory mention of his pin-up Gangers ... the red mist descends then, as it so often does over Delhi!

horace wrote:all i did was ask an innocent question - given the dire experience of SL in pakistan one would expect the SL govt and team management and members would wish to be assured of their safety...doremi is just another stoopid arrogant pig of a kid

Yeah, ofcourse you did you miserable bullshit merchant.

that's the spirit, do-boy, don't let horrie get all "white-man's burden" on your arse . . .

Speaking of the tour of SA

Where is Sreesanth? this current lot of Balaji, Nehra and Praveen Kumar aren't very good

Zak
Sharma
Sreesanth
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RP Singh(12th man)

thats their best pace bowling attack for all 3 forms of the game

tac wrote:that's the spirit, do-boy, don't let horrie get all "white-man's burden" on your arse . . .

doremi is the thickest individual to post here since buckledhead

that's what makes him so much fun, h . . . (mind you, I think you do Chandan a disservice in that comparison)

I like the Chandan innocent question style...it is reminscent of of the style adopted by various upper class twits I have met (and ripped off playing poker with)

PlanetPakistan wrote:Speaking of the tour of SA

Where is Sreesanth? this current lot of Balaji, Nehra and Praveen Kumar aren't very good

Zak
Sharma
Sreesanth
---------------
RP Singh(12th man)

thats their best pace bowling attack for all 3 forms of the game

Sreesanth is fit. But it seems selectors want him to earn his spot rather than handing it to him in a platter. Not a bad ploy, IMO. It reminds the player that it is not easy to get into the test team.

And what tour of SA? AFAIK, SA is visiting India.

SA is visiting IND again?
they came last year too

Hope to see Sree in CT

PlanetPakistan wrote:SA is visiting IND again?
they came last year too

Hope to see Sree in CT

Yeah! That is the question I was asking as well, earlier in the thread.

Sree was fit for WI ODI tour too, but on what basis could the selectors choose him? I hope they choose him in the Emerging players' tournament in Australia this month so that he has some performance to show.

Well BCCI have the money so anything is possible. May be they counted the IPL as the away tour

PlanetPakistan wrote:SA is visiting IND again?
they came last year too

It's the only way India can win tests against SA

Josh Carney wrote:Well BCCI have the money so anything is possible. May be they counted the IPL as the away tour

That can't be the reason.

And the current FTP hasn't ended yet. So it really is a curious case!
Anyone knows about the reasons?

Money, money, money

taipan wrote:Money, money, money

Nah! For money, they've already scrapped a major One day domestic tournament, to have another domestic T20 tournament apart from IPL.

BCCI will never organise tests for money.

It's not as if that domestic T20 tournament is going to bring in the crowds anyways.

And if it was money, the Australians would have been roped in. SA are not the crowd pullers.

Chandan wrote:BCCI will never organise tests for money.

Agreed, they normally cancel them to arrange more ODI's and T20s

If I remember right, the Saffies played just tests on their last tour last year. The ODIs were scrapped for some reason and were to be played at a later stage. India, however, had a full tour of SA which included Tests and ODIs. Shouldn't the Saffies be playing just ODIs or did I miss a tour before the tests?

jim rich wrote:If I remember right, the Saffies played just tests on their last tour last year. The ODIs were scrapped for some reason and were to be played at a later stage. India, however, had a full tour of SA which included Tests and ODIs. Shouldn't the Saffies be playing just ODIs or did I miss a tour before the tests?

Didn't SA play a One day in 05-06 season just after SL had played 7 ODIs?

I don't remember, Chandan. Must have missed that one. In that case and in view of reciprocity, India should be touring SA.

Josh Carney wrote:Well BCCI have the money so anything is possible. May be they counted the IPL as the away tour

good call.

taipan wrote:

Josh Carney wrote:Tests in SA, that should be good.

Why?

You like losing?

We have a cunning plan this time around. The series will be called "World -some championship or other", that should fix it.

Chandan wrote:

jim rich wrote:If I remember right, the Saffies played just tests on their last tour last year. The ODIs were scrapped for some reason and were to be played at a later stage. India, however, had a full tour of SA which included Tests and ODIs. Shouldn't the Saffies be playing just ODIs or did I miss a tour before the tests?

Didn't SA play a One day in 05-06 season just after SL had played 7 ODIs?

jim rich wrote:I don't remember, Chandan. Must have missed that one. In that case and in view of reciprocity, India should be touring SA.

India did tour in 06-07 and played one day as well as ODIs and SA reciprocated by playing only tests. So again it doesn't prove why SA should tour India again, before India reciprocrates their 2008 tour!

Thankfully he is back!

Josh Carney wrote:He is phenomenal in the short versions when technique is not tested that much.
He could easily walk into a Sumo or WWF wrestling gig the way he is bloating by the day.

Harsh. Cancer and chemo must have sorted that out?